Tablets to outsell netbooks by 2012, says Forrester report on US PC market - June 21, 2010
Independent research company Forrester Research, US, has released a report titled 'The US Consumer PC Market In 2015.' Fuelled by a growing interest in tablet computers, nearly half a billion PCs will be sold to consumers in the US between now and 2015, according to the… Read More
Researchers to gain free access to journals published in Africa - June 21, 2010
A full-text, digital archive of journal articles published in Africa is now available at www.ajarchive.org. The African Journal Archive is funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York and managed by South Africa-based Sabinet. It will make African research and cultural heritage published in Africa available free… Read More
Springer Open Choice uptake influences 2011 journal pricing - June 21, 2010
STM publisher Springer has analysed the uptake of its open access option Open Choice for articles published in 2009. The global publisher is now set to share the impact of the Open Choice offering on 2011 pricing. Springer Open Choice allows authors to publish their article… Read More
Kyoto University study uses Scopus data to examine effectiveness of 21st Century COE programme for accelerating research performance - June 21, 2010
Abstracting and indexing database Scopus, part of STM publisher Elsevier, Netherlands, has announced that Kyoto University is employing its data and functions in a study performed by Dr. Takanori Ida, Professor at the Graduate School of Economics - Kyoto University. Scopus claims to be the world's… Read More
SAGE unveils new online resource – SAGE Insight - June 21, 2010
Academic and professional publisher SAGE has announced the launch of a new online resource, SAGE Insight (http://www.sagepub.com/sageinsight), that will put the spotlight on research published across its scholarly journals. SAGE Insight links to highly topical articles from across the 560 journals hosted… Read More
Portico and John Benjamins Publishing Company in deal to preserve e-journals - June 21, 2010
Non-profit electronic archiving service provider Portico, US, has announced an agreement with academic publisher John Benjamins Publishing Company to preserve the latter's entire collection of 47 e-journals. With the inclusion of these 47 e-journals, over 11,000 e-journals, 33,000 e-books and 10 d-collections from 110 publishers on… Read More
